Improvement in trotting-wagons



P. JONES.

TROTTING WAGONS.

No.179,479. Patented July 4:.1876.

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M %Z y MPEIERS. PHOTO-IJTHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIGE,

PHINEAS JONES, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.-

IMPROVEMENT IN TROTTlNG-WAGONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 179,479, dated July 4,1876; application filed June 5, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PHINEAS JONES, of Newark, in the county of Essex andState of New Jersey, have invented a new Improvement in Trotting-Wagons;and I do herebydeclare the following, when taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to bea full, clear, and exact description of the same,

and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, andrepresent, in-

Figure 1, a top or plan view, and in Fig. 2

a side View.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of vehicles usedfor trotting purposes, commonly called skeleton-wagons.

The object of the invention is to construct a wagon lighter andstronger, but yet without the iron bracing of the usual construction,

crowned up to the seat B, the curved front being of longer radius thanin the rear, and

curved inward, as seen in Fig. 1, so as to give the transverse supportto the seat. The seat is made fast to the bars. The sides 0 consist of awood bar, extending from front to rear, and thus prevent the spreadingof the framework fore and aft.

By this construction a very strong wagon is produced, and without otheriron work or bracing than the clips or bolts which are necessary tosecure the parts together, the form of the bars A giving all the bracingsupport necessary.

I claim- In atrotting-wagon, the vertically and transversely curved barsA, rigidly attached to the frame at their forward and rear ends, 00111-bined with a seat arranged on the said bars, all substantially asspecified.

PHINEAS JONES. Witnesses:

JOHN E. EARLE, CLARA BROUGHTON.

